Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:25:03 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Thomas Quinot <thomas@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <200302121525.03156.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030212103815.GH39728@starjuice.net> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20030212095925.GA83388@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20030212103815.GH39728@starjuice.net>
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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:38, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/02/12 09:59), Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > It's about that time of year again when someone points out that
> > > syslogd(8) is just begging for an alternative configuration file,
> > > syslog.xml. :-)
> > >
> > > And then it'll be time for someone to point out that such notions are
> > > nothing more than fancy because we don't have XML support in the base
> > > syst...
> > >
> > > Oh dear.
> >
> > GEOM.
>
> Surely you don't mean to suggest that libbsdxml could be used to provide
> configuration files that are flexible, extensible, readable and
> machine-parsable? ;-)
Well, pick 2. Or maybe 3. No, 2 at best. XML is extensible (sort
of, but you have to re-write the parsing code to do it) and machine-
parsable.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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